FVRL Teen Imagine Contest Winners 2022

TEEN IMAGINE

IT CAN BE ANYTHING YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO

WINNERS | RUNNER-UPS

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

Welcome,

Fraser Valley Regional Library is pleased to present our 2022 Teen Imagine Contest winners

We had over 137 entries in 2022 and selecting our winners was difficult as always. We hope you’ll agree these works are impressive Enjoy admiring, watching, reading and listening to this collection of winners!

Background

Started in 2015, this annual contest invites Fraser Valley teens to submit any and every creative piece they’re proud to share. Every year we ’ re impressed by the creativity and talent of our teen community.

BITTER BLACKBERRY

A small set of lyrical poems about identity

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Lilya M. E. | 16 years old

Ladner Pioneer Library

the human along sea eyes open and sloped seal head shifting salt snapped line

they catch my signal guttural noise of thought willful, wiry wondering from across the room my halved face is not two but seven

the heady scent of them daisy oxygen collapses muscle memory and skin prickles of something stopped

the watch and blink between me and them

row over rows of paisley curtain and rotten fruit let circles overlap

they bring dahlias open faced to my chin freckles and acne that brush the soft petal and fingers from across the room there is a catch in my heart

the ragged edges pull away

toppling down the good pieces

of me now along, alone

i can be wanting but not soft

your plucked blackberry rotten and earthy toned to lazy thought she your love

when you pressed her into my palm i turned away quickly wary of catching

the stain purpled my curled fingertips when the blackberry coloured your teeth

toss you said what was there to throw anymore

for hours you were an extension of me

the bitter but that course tone hated then

We left everything piled together in the reeds

The porcelain that you wrapped in Sunday papers

We tucked under each other’s arms and chins

Old cheesecloth, olive stains, someone ’ s lipstick

Your peppery mouth

And i forgot the blanket in the trunk by the ditch

In the summer, we were made of water and skin

Boasted of speckled noses

Round like robin eggs

And we tasted each day with bitten lips

Waited for blue with crossed fingers

Ached in rain for whatever else we wanted

The warm nights kept us wandering

While yawn-less we trespassed

Held hands and read palms

Before the tired tails of august

We kissed life back

In the summer, we were made of salt

i like my tea next to black the bag tipsy on the water a cup of lukewarm stillness held Pretty I am not pretty The word isn’t mine I may give it away, but it never belonged to me

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SARDIS MODEL

Sardis library made entirely out of recycled card board and other recycled materials. Referenced pictures from Google (maps, search)

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Ezra L. | 14 years old

Chilliwack Library

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EXPRESSIONLESS

Digital portrait painted in Procreate using an iPad Pro. I was inspired by the image of the model: her face not showing any particular emotion, but yet filled with nuance, almost as though she was inviting you to guess what she is thinking. When painting, I was fascinated by how the smallest alteration of a feature could change the entire expression. Building from a rough outline and values to a completed portrait with tiny details is a challenge that is both satisfying and rewarding.

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Samara K. | 18 years old

Dean Drysdale Library – Walnut Grove

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KUN

Inspired by one particularly interesting pumpkin, bought just after autumn had started.

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Celine C. | 16 years old

Aldergrove Library

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MANDO SUIT

I am a huge fan of 'The Mandalorian,' so for Halloween I decided to make myself a Mandalorian suit. This amazing suit is homemade except for the gloves, boots, and knee/shoulder pads. The pads were bought from the Dollarstore and then painted over, and the jumpsuit is from Value Village. The helmet and gauntlets are 3-D printed, and the chest and back-plates are made of cardboard.

Runner-up

Cariana F. | 13 years old

Abbotsford Community Library

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KRECIK

Krecik (hedgehog) is designed to fit together using carefully planned slots (with the exception of the nose piece, which is fixed onto the structure using wood glue). The concept is based off of children’s wooden puzzles, using vertical and horizontal components to express an animal’s distinct characteristics three-dimensionally.

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Marta K. | 16 years old

Terry Fox Library

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CHALLENGED

This is a short story I wrote that takes place around 1,030 years in the future, in a dystopian society where every 10-50 years the government gathers a single age group and gets them to test new technology...

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Arianna P. | 15 years old

Yarrow Library

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KOI DREAM

I experimented with acrylic and watercolor mixed media for my Koi fish. I experimented with various techniques such as scumbling and dry painting. I took further reference in the composition from a couple of different koi photographs and painting pieces - that I was able to reference and imitate some techniques they utilized. I took the creative license to work on the shadows, light, contrasts, and vibrancy of colors as they complemented one another.

Runner-up

Isla W. | 16 years old Dean Drysdale Library – Walnut Grove

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JUST WELL ENOUGH

It's a short story about a walk between best friends. And sometimes, I find, that stories like those are the best.

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Natalia P. | 13 years old Tsawwassen Library

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SAFE HAVEN

Silhouettes painted on newapaper covered wood panels, representing the fact that everybody needs to feel safe and secure.

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Selena C. | 14 years old

Terry Fox Library

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MULAN

I choreographed this figure skating short solo based on the song 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' from the movie Mulan. I designed my own costume, hairstyle and used a bamboo stick as my prop.

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Olivia H. | 12 years old

George Mackie Library

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KILL THIS LOVE

This is a dance cover project video I recorded and edited. I choose to perform the dance to Blackpink's song, 'Kill This Love' which I learned through YouTube. After memorizing, I recorded myself dancing in my neighborhood (a park, my backyard, etc. ) and then editing all the videos into one final piece.

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June Y. | 16 years old

Clearbrook Library

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JE NE TE QUITTERAI PAS

I call it, the illustration, "I will not leave You", because the pilot never left the little prince and he. Like the fox and the little prince, like the little prince and his rose.

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Zoe C. | 16 years old Aldergrove Library

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PUISQUE C'EST

MA ROSE

"Of course, my own rose, an ordinary passerby would believe that it looks like you. But on its own it is more important than all of you, since it is my rose. "

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Zoe C. | 16 years old Aldergrove Library

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COLOURS

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digital portrait sketch

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Ella C. | 16 years old

Dean Drysdale Library – Walnut Grove

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DRAGONS

This is my fan art of Spider-Man and Batman in Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire dragon form using inks and watercolours.

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Lila F. | 15 years old

Abbotsford Community Library

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SIRMISCELLANEOUS' MEDIEVALUNDERCOVERLAB

An original LEGO scene The background is painted with acrylic From the outside, this is just an ordinary castle on an ordinary hill, but, if the guards will admit you, you will see that it is actually a multi-room, hightech lab The cave entrance is perfect for transporting cargo undetected, and our raccoon friend has hired all the smartest woodland animals to be his scientists

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Lila F. | 15 years old

Abbotsford Community Library

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BUBBLE GUM UNDERWATER

I completed this piece a while before for a school art assignment. I started off this project as a still life of a bubblegum machine my art teacher had for art class. Then I branched out from that.

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Isla W. | 16 years old

Dean Drysdale Library – Walnut Grove

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A NATURAL BEAUTY

For this piece I was inspired by the natural beauty around us. I created this piece by only using things found in nature. This piece is important to me because we often forget about the nature around us and how beautiful it can be.

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Avianca R. | 14 years old

Terry Fox Library

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THE HUNT

My piece, which I named The Hunt, is greatly inspired by an anime I watched over the break named ‘Banana Fish’. I designed my own “Banana Fish” and took the sobriquet “Lynx” of the main character in the anime, designing a scene where the lynx is being chased down by the hunters behind for the banana fish it had in turn, hunted.

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Isla W. | 16 years old

Dean Drysdale Library - Walnut Grove

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BUS STOP

For me, waiting before the bus arrives is a time for me to think. I lose myself in thoughts, chasing daydreams, or mundane thoughts such as the daily schedule for what's to come. Through ink and words as a medium, I conveyed lights and dark, sculpting a bus stop scene. Looking closely, the cursive words that are repeated over the page were from an original poem about the timelessness of bus stops, where the people come and go.

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Isla W. | 15 years old

Dean Drysdale Library - Walnut Grove

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SUBMERGED

Materials: Pencil Crayon, White Pen, Wax Pencil. I created this piece to visually show the importance of strong relationships. It is essential for everyone to have people around them who will help them even when they feel like they're drowning.

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Julianna M. | 17 years old

Murrayville Library

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HOP GRASSER DANCE

I composed a piece of music for grade 4 or 5 piano. This is my first time ever composing an original song. It’s inspired by my childhood. I grew up catching grasshoppers when I I would go camping in the summer. When I was very young I started calling them “hop grassers ” and it was just how I continued to say it.

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Anna S. | 18 years old Chilliwack Library

Hop Grasser Dance ( mp3)

COMFORT ZONE

This is a watercolour piece inspired by wildlife. I used salt, and different stroke techniques to emphasize the texture of the background and flower. Frogs are beautiful creatures, and I wanted to show them incased in a flower here.

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Elaine C. | 17 years old

Dean Drysdale Library - Walnut Grove

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CARDBOARD PLANES

Using cardboard, toothpicks, plastic, hot glue gun, paint and 3 toy army man I was able to recreate 7 of my favorite military planes. I love model building and most proud of my red Baron model.

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Mikey Q. | 12 years old

Murrayville Library

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PINK NIGHT

It is a painting made with acrylic paint. There is a whale swimming in the sky. The pink clouds increase the dreaminess. The painting makes you feel like you could be there at the moment, riding the whale around the moon. It's like a dream that someone might have wanting it to come true.

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Ashreet A. | 14 years old

Clearbrook Library

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FALL WITH THE FAY

Fall With The Fay is a short story that has no real ending. I want it to be the sort of tale that catches in the readers mind and coaxes them to tell us how it ends. Even I, the author, don't know what happens to the girl.

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Natalia P. | 13 years old Tsawwassen Library

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EERIE

I have created a portrait using an image from google as a reference. I specifically chose to draw that portrait because of its eyes, it was the most captivating and intense and I tried my best to capture that with my somewhat artistic capabilities.

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Gurkirat K. W. | 17 years old

Abbotsford Community Library

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LAVENDER WATERCOLOUR

A watercolour painting of wild lavender flowers. It reminds me of summer and the beauty of nature.

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Malia W. | 14 years old

Abbotsford Community Library

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SCORPION FIGHTER SHIPS

I LOVE Star Wars, and I also love LEGO. I decided a while ago to try to make my own Star Wars spaceship without instructions, and I made these.

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Micah F. | 13 years old

Chilliwack Library

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CRANE GONE FISHING

Acrylic painting of a crane on canvas. I had to research the skin undertone which I found out was pink and then paint overtop in layers. I was inspired by Robert Bateman’s paintings that I used to look at as a kid in the library books on art

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Hannah B. | 15 years old

Abbotsford Community Library

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WATERFIGHT IN THE RAIN

This comic was a recounting of one afternoon in my life. It was some time after my grandma’s funeral our first encounter with death my cousins Ian and Nicole, and Celine, were my companions in sadness, and yet that was the day we finally felt ready to discuss our grandma’s passing.

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Zoe C. | 16 years old

Aldergrove Library

INSANITY CONSUMES ME

A collection of poems that I've been writing

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Pavan D. | 16 years old

Fort Langley Library

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THE GLOWING MOON

A canvas painting that I made with acrylic paint, brushes and canvas. I got the idea from a old Egyptian movie I watched and there was a manuscript with the same design on it so I turned in into a painting.

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Prabhnoor K. | 15 years old

Clearbrook Library

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CARLA

Conté on paper, life drawing.

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Celine C. | 16 years old

Aldergrove Library

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AND THE WORLD WAS OURS

Gouache on watercolour paper with poem

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Celine C. | 16 years old

Aldergrove Library

It was a summer ’ s day, the air smothered us with its burning tentacles, trying to get under our skin and force out the water beneath the surface. Like miners it was, extracting precious minerals from the stubborn earth

We welcomed the heat though, and the sweat that came with it. That was what it takes to be a child

(It would be a lie if we didn’t escape and accept the embrace of the air conditioner rather gracefully despite the heroism of being children)

As soon as we were old enough to discover the nearby store

柑仔店, it was called More of a general existence in my beloved beloved country than a specific name we swarmed to it like flecks of metal to a magnet

As my father would have done many years ago

Like miners we were also Pulling and digging into the sweet and bubbling history

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BREATHLESS

This is a poem I wrote while pacing and getting stuck in my own thoughts. It started out as a short poem to describe a villain with a broken, sad sort of beauty and turned into this. Now, I’m not quite sure what it symbolizes (or maybe I am; you’ll never know), but I hope that you can write your own meaning into my words.

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Natalia P. | 13 years old

Tsawwassen Library

CITY PATHWAY

This is a song that I created. It fits into the genre of Hip-Hop or Electronic. I chose to call it City Pathway because it makes me imagine taking a stroll down an urban pathway. I composed the song using a program called BandLab.

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Harishvin S. | 13 years old

Mission Library

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RUE WALTING

This is an excerpt from a novel that I started writing last year about a girl and a ghost. It’s supposed to be quite lyrical and poetic at times, and the writing is meant to represent the way that Rue Walting thinks.

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Lilya E. | 16 years old Ladner Pioneer Library

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TEEN IMAGINE

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR PARTICIPATING!

WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR CREATIVITY IN 2023.

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